Çalıkuşu - Netflix

The show brings a new perspective to the classic Turkish book, Calikusu.
Feride, the main character has been orphaned as a young girl, and is
forced to attend a boarding school while also visiting her aunt during
breaks, and holidays. During this time she has fallen in love with her
charming older cousin Kamran. Their love soon grows to be mutual and
this shows marks their journey as their love grows and intensifies. The
highly acclaimed television show will take you through this journey of
love, bravery, and humor.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Turkish

Status: Ended

Runtime: 95 minutes

Premier: 2013-09-24

Çalıkuşu - Çalıkuşu - Netflix

Çalıkuşu, or The Wren, is a novel by Reşat Nuri Güntekin written in
1922, about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher named Feride.

Çalıkuşu - Plot summary - Netflix

The events in the novel take place in the early twentieth century, near
the collapse of a war weary Ottoman Empire and the creation of the
Turkish republic. Most of the novel is recounted in first-person diary
format by Feride. In the first section, Feride describes her childhood,
beginning from the beginning and leading to the events that led her to a
strange hotel room. The second and largest section consists of diary
entries describing her adventures in Anatolia. The third section is the
only one written from the third person point of view, describing
Feride's visit to her home. Feride is the orphaned daughter of an army
officer. As a teenager, she attends Lycee Notre Dame de Sion in the
winter, and stays with one of her late mother's sisters during the
summer holidays. She is given the nickname “the Wren” during her time at
school for her vivacity and mischief. These two characteristics
considered unusual and even a bit inappropriate for Muslim girls at that
time. She gets engaged to her charming cousin, Kamran, whom she leaves
the night before their wedding, upon discovering that he has been
unfaithful to her. She runs away from home to become a teacher in
Anatolia, although she remains desperately in love with Kamran. She is
forced to move from town to town several times during her first three
years as a teacher, as a result of the incompetence of officials, the
malice of colleagues and the unwanted attention she gets from men
because of her beauty and her lively manner. Meanwhile, she adopts a
little girl called Munise, finds out that Kamran has married the woman
he had cheated on Feride with, and develops a friendship with Hayrullah
Bey, an elderly military doctor who treats Feride with fatherly
affection. At the end of these three years, Munise dies and Feride is
forced to resign from her post and marry the doctor because of the
rumors about her “indecent behavior”. A couple of years later, Feride
returns to Tekirdag to visit one of her aunts and her cousin Mujgan,
where Kamran, now widowed and with a small child, also happens to be. He
has never gotten over Feride, painfully regrets having cheated on her,
and confesses to have married the other woman only out of pity after he
heard false rumors about Feride being in love with another man. The
night before her arranged departure, Feride confesses to Mujgan that her
marriage to the doctor has never been consummated and he has in fact
died recently. He told Feride to revive her ties to her family as his
last wish, and gave her a package to be entrusted to Mujgan. Mujgan
takes the package to Kamran, which turns out to be Feride's diary which
was hidden and preserved by the doctor. Finding out that Feride is still
in love with him, Kamran arranges to be wedded to Feride the next day
without her knowledge. The novel ends with their long-awaited reunion,
and Kamran's confession that he betrayed her all those years ago because
of his insecurity about her love for and loyalty to him, due to her
ostensible frivolity and harsh treatment of him.